Project AssureInsight from live mandates
Practitioner writing on schedule forensics, quantitative risk, delay and EOT entitlement, and project controls, the disciplines behind every Project Assure engagement.
When to bring in an EOT claim consultant · and why timing decides it
A decision guide for owners and contractors in the UAE and GCC: the signals it's time to engage an independent extension-of-time and delay consultant.
Read →What an independent Primavera P6 schedule audit actually finds
An independent Primavera P6 schedule audit surfaces broken logic, false float and critical-path manipulation before they cost you at tribunal. Here is what it finds.
Read →Choosing a delay analysis method: the six techniques and when each holds
A practical guide to the six SCL delay analysis methods: what records each needs, prospective vs retrospective, and which forum favours which.
Read →FIDIC claims: how prolongation and disruption quantum is actually proved
How prolongation and disruption quantum is actually proved under FIDIC, records, methods and the delay foundation that makes a claim defensible.
Read →Independent project assurance: what it is, and when owners and lenders need it
Independent project assurance verifies whether a project's own reporting still tells the truth. What it covers, and when owners, lenders and boards need it.
Read →Bid and tender programme assurance: stress-testing a schedule before you sign
Stress-test your tender programme before you sign. Independent bid schedule review that exposes optimism, lead-time and FIDIC risk before it becomes a dispute.
Read →DCMA 14-Point Assessment explained · with a worked P6 example
What the DCMA 14-point schedule assessment actually checks, why BEI and CPLI matter, and a worked Primavera P6 example, plus how to run all 14 checks in under a minute.
Read →P50 vs P80: how to set a defensible completion date
A single completion date is a fiction. Here is how quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) turns P50, P80 and P90 into decisions about the working programme, contractual commitment and contingency.
Read →Concurrent delay: the argument you win in month three, not month thirty
By the time a concurrency argument reaches a tribunal, the outcome is largely determined by records created years earlier. Here is the month-three discipline that decides month-thirty disputes.
Read →NEC4 vs FIDIC EOT claims: what actually differs
Both NEC4 and FIDIC give a route to an extension of time, but their notice regimes, time-bars and assessment philosophy differ in ways that decide entitlement. A practical comparison.
Read →Time Impact Analysis vs windows analysis: choosing the right delay method
Prospective vs retrospective delay analysis: when Time Impact Analysis (TIA) is the right method, when a windows / as-planned vs as-built analysis wins, and what the SCL Protocol expects of each.
Read →NEC4 compensation events: the early-warning discipline that protects entitlement
How NEC4 compensation events actually work: the early-warning register, the eight-week notification bar, and why prospective, quotation-based assessment rewards contractors who manage in real time.
Read →Systems assurance on rail: linking design maturity to construction readiness
On multi-contract rail programmes, a package can be 'complete' on paper while the work it enables is not ready. Independent systems assurance and design stage-gates close that gap.
Read →Seven red flags in a Primavera P6 schedule · and what they cost you
Open ends, hard constraints, negative float, missing baseline: seven structural red flags that tell you a Primavera P6 schedule has stopped being a model of the work. And how to catch them in seconds.
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